Ingredients for the topping: • 1/4 cup (60g) unsalted butter, melted • 1/2 cup (100g) packed light brown sugar • Sliced pineapple (6-8 canned slices) • 15–20 maraschino cherries Ingredients for the batter: • My Easiest 2 Bowl cake* Directions: • Preheat oven to 180°C. • Place melted butter into a 9×2″ round cake pan. …
The Peranaken community is unique to South East Asia and particularly the Malay archipelago. Chinese or Indian Traders who sailed to the Malacca straits and plied their wares, couldn’t return to their places of origin until the monsoon winds aligned with their destinations. So they would drop anchor literally and figuratively and spend 4 to …
A long long time back, in what seems to be another lifetime, I used to make brownies for The Corner House in Bangalore. Spurred on by my lovely friend (and main customer) Sagarika, to bake cakes and cookies, brownies and bread, I took my first steps towards setting up a small business. The first year, …
Growing up in sleepy cantonment towns all over India, with no decent shows on TV and no Internet, (and no social life to speak of), libraries were my favourite hang out joints. Cookbooks were few and far between. And Martha Stewart and Nigella Lawson yet to make their names and fortunes. But my mom’s Anglo …
Did you know? Walls! The name is synonymous with Ice cream today. Walls is found everywhere, in the largest of malls and the smallest of towns. However, long before Walls became the symbol of global cooling, it was but a modest shop selling (and you are never going to guess this!) pork. in 1786, Richard …